Hardwood industry employs almost one-third of agricultural workers in Indiana. From: The Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, Indiana) (viaKnight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) | Date: December 27, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2004 The Indianapolis Star. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Byline: Norm Heikens

Dec. 27--Indiana's sprawling corn and soybean fields have nothing on its forests, a new study of Hoosier agriculture shows.

Employment and wages in the state's sawmills, furniture factories and other sectors of the hardwood industry rival those of the farms, grain elevators and food manufacturers that drive the most visible aspect of agriculture, according to an interim report released this month by BioCrossroads, a life sciences economic development nonprofit.

Last year, one in 15 Hoosier workers -- 190,000 -- made a living from agriculture, the ...

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